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Review: 'With & Without' By Ose
“But to anyone who seeks it with sincere desire and true need, it reveals itself by its sudden sparkle, like that of dewdrops.” - René Daumal Dropping seemingly random, profound quotes at the...
Ami Dang Translates Folklore With A Heady Spin Of Sitar And Synthesisers On 'Parted Plains'
Ami Dang might not remember, but in 2011, during an interview with Baltimore Sun, she inadvertently predicted her music career. “I’d love to do an album that’s all house and dance songs and one...
Jojo Mayer: ‘Nothing New Can Be Created Without Deviating From The Norm’
“NERVE sounds like electronic music, but it’s not. It doesn’t sound like jazz or rock, but it is,” states the bio of NERVE. To comprehend this “sonic alchemy”, as the band’s central...
Wild City Singled Out: July 2019
Wild City handpicks the freshest, most interesting one-off singles released by artists in South Asia in our monthly feature - Singled Out. If you’d like us to listen to your music, send the relevant...
The South Asian Diaspora Finds Its Voice On Sarathy Korwar’s ‘More Arriving’
Sarathy Korwar is tired. He's frustrated, and he's largely exasperated. “I don't enjoy making records about being a minority,” he tells me over Skype, early morning (British time) from his...
Wild City Singled Out: June 2019
Wild City handpicks the freshest, most interesting one-off singles released by artists in South Asia in our monthly feature - Singled Out. If you’d like us to listen to your music, send the relevant...
‘I would like to float in the air’: Yosi Horikawa On Shaping Sound, ‘Spaces’ & Borrowed Scenery
Moldy vinyl. Bicycle bells. Steam engines. Kitchen utensils. Goats, leather seats, pen scribbling on paper, scratches of paint brushes, beds, waterfalls, birds, raindrops: trickle, ripple, drizzle,...
Review: 'Little Kid, Big Dreams' By AHMER x Sez On The Beat
“For me, this is the most important record we have ever put out,'' remarked Azadi Records co-founder Uday Kapur at our listening session for AHMER’s debut album ‘Little Kid, Big Dreams’, made...
Review: 'O' By Tienas
The term autobiography or memoir is typically anointed to works that encompass one's narrative past. Prabh Deep's 'Class-Sikh', for example, contextually framed the rapper's coming-of-age in the...
Review: '1011' By BK x Hashbass
If there's one thing I dislike about lo-fi hip-hop, it's the genre's obsession with sampling speeches and dialogue from films. Of course, that's only my personal opinion, and just because I dislike...